Cancer patient leaves $6 million estate to Christ Hospital in Jersey City for cancer center

Terrence T. McDonald/The Jersey JournalChrist Hospital CEO Peter Kelly stands in front of a former day car center that will soon be home to a state-of-the-art chemotherapy/infusion center.

A comprehensive cancer treatment center will be built at Christ Hospital in Jersey City in large part because of the generosity of a former patient, The Jersey Journal reports.

The estate of Sarah Stickler, the former patient who was treated for cancer at Christ Hospital in the 1990s, has donated $6 million to the hospital. Stickler died in 1999 and left the money to the hospital specifically so it could open a comprehensive cancer treatment center.